Pennsylvania Housing Research Center

Pennsylvania Housing Research Center

Sam Rashkin, chief architect for the Department of Energy’s Building Technologies Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, will be the keynote speaker for the 2016 Hankin Lecture at Penn State. The event will take place at 4 p.m. Nov. 9 in The Nittany Lion Inn Boardroom.

Ali M. Memari, professor of architectural engineering, has been named the Bernard and Henrietta Hankin Chair of Residential Construction and director of the Pennsylvania Housing Research Center (PHRC), effective July 1.

The Pennsylvania Housing Research Center, located in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Penn State, will hold its 17th Annual Pennsylvania Housing and Land Development Conference on Feb. 11-12, at the Hilton Scranton and Conference Center in Scranton, Pa. The conference is intended to bring together professionals from all sections of the industry including, engineers, architects, landscape architects, builders and manufacturers, as well as state and local governments.